Ethereum co‑founder Vitalik Buterin urged builders to push the network toward AI leadership by prioritizing zero‑knowledge privacy payments and on‑chain reputation systems. The piece also highlights 13,000 AI agents registered in one day and ERC‑8004 going live on mainnet, while the Ethereum Foundation targets a zkVM whitepaper and proofs by December 2026 at roughly 300 kilobytes with 128‑bit security.

In a recent livestream titled "Legacy and the Lineage of Kings," Shiba Inu lead ambassador Shytoshi Kusama announced the end of his spiritual commentary phase and a pivot to a proprietary AI platform valued at about $2 million. The new non-blockchain system, built with over 100,000 lines of code, is designed as an encrypted, private archive for personal and family legacy and will begin with a tightly limited beta of 10 users from a possible 144,000. He also outlined a broader technical roadmap for the Shiba Inu ecosystem, including Treat token-backed grants and upcoming sessions focused on SHIB, BONE, LEASHv2 and TREAT.

The White House has paused planned restrictions on China Telecom, TP‑Link routers, and Chinese hardware in U.S. data centers ahead of President Donald Trump's April trip to Beijing. The shift follows late‑2025 changes to Nvidia H200 sales and a January 2026 TikTok deal, while China's October 2025 rare‑earth export controls increased leverage. The Pentagon has invested $400 million in MP Materials to mitigate supply risks.

In a blog post on Wednesday, Vitalik Buterin and Ethereum Foundation AI lead Davide Crapis proposed a zero-knowledge–based system to keep AI API calls private while enabling payment and anti-abuse controls. Users would fund a smart contract (e.g., 100 USDC) and make unlinkable requests, with dual-staking penalties deterring double-spends and policy violations.

Coinbase introduced Agentic Wallets to let autonomous AI agents hold funds, send payments, trade tokens, and earn onchain yield. A blog post published on Wednesday, February 11, said the tool adds built-in security and leverages the x402 protocol across EVM chains, Solana, and Coinbase’s Base Layer 2. The release includes a command-line interface and Smart Security Guardrails.

On Wednesday, Coinbase said it introduced Agentic Wallets, a crypto wallet infrastructure that lets AI agents spend, earn and trade with user-defined permissions. The feature builds on AgentKit and routes payments via x402, which has reportedly processed 50 million transactions, and supports operations on Base, including 24/7 liquidity management and automated rebalancing.

Elon Musk reorganized xAI and folded it into SpaceX in an all-stock deal valuing SpaceX at $1 trillion and xAI at $250 billion. Co-founders Jimmy Ba and Tony Wu left earlier this week, while regulators in the U.S., Europe, and Asia are investigating Grok's explicit deepfake output. SpaceX aims to list later this year, with the IPO potentially reaching $1.5 trillion, according to Bloomberg.

In an update dated February 11, 2026, Meta said it will invest over $10 billion to build a data center in Lebanon, Indiana, and started construction. Separately, auditor Ernst & Young identified a $27 billion Louisiana joint venture as a "critical audit matter," with Meta's commitments and guarantees potentially reaching $45.95 billion.